Sentences with phrase «winning college games»

The reason athletes are provided more amenities, cost of living stipends, and full scholarships / housing is because their contribution to the university is marketable and profitable — the success of athletic programs in winning college games.

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The logic: Marshall has won their past five bowl games, the longest active streak in college football.

She has already won the White House's Champion of Change award as well as the South by Southwest Black Innovator award and Spelman College's Game Changer award.

In order to fill the entire slate of college football bowl games this season, 15 teams without winning records will participate in the bowl season, but it could be worse.

Tarkanian, best known for his huge success at UNLV and adversarial relationship with the NCAA, won 784 games over his college career, losing only 202.

That night Tech's boys, who aren't supposed to be built that way, wrecked mighty Kentucky, top college team in the nation, 65 - 59 for an incredible repeat of the miracle of early January, when lowly Tech beat Kentucky at Lexington to end a 32 - game Kentucky winning streak.

A dominant second - half performance on both sides of the ball sent Clemson to the College Football Playoff Championship Game after a 37 - 17 Orange Bowl win over Oklahoma.

Fitzgerald set an NCAA record in the Panthers» 24 - 13 win over Boston College last Saturday, catching a touchdown pass in a 14th consecutive game.

Cam Newton could make his pro debut in the same stadium in which he closed out his college career with a BCS title game win.

Following a convincing win over Clemson, Alabama opened as 4.5 - point favorites for Monday's College Football Playoff National Championship game against Georgia.

The Broncos won in one of college football's greatest games with a gutsy Statue of Liberty call before star RB Ian Johnson proposed to his girlfriend, a Boise cheerleader.

This game feels, in part, like a referendum: Is Wisconsin good enough to topple college football's Brahmans, or is it capped at only ever being a quiet miracle, good enough to sustain a nearly irreplicable run of success but never win a national title?

We have also proved that NBA teams are undervalued in early season back - to - back games, neutral site college basketball games have been very low - scoring and NFL teams have underperformed in «must - win» games.

The No. 1 Tigers are headed to the College Football Playoff Championship Game after a methodical win over Oklahoma.

Paul Brown is 61, and there has been no banking of the fires that have burned within him since his first coaching job at Severn (Md.) Prep in 1930 and that have produced 299 wins and 15 ties in 400 high - school, college and pro games.

It felt like a home game for Michigan during Saturday's 28 - 0 win over Maryland in College Park.

A run to say, the College Football Playoff, would be unlikely, but after struggling so badly last season, a year when it finished 4 - 8, winning most of those games would be a nice achievement.

The year - in / year - out (read: primary) goal of college coaches and college basketball programs is to win college basketball games (and championships).

After praising Baylor for becoming the first college basketball team to win 40 games in a season, President Obama turned his attention to the tallest member of the Bears» traveling party at the White House on July 18.

«It was my first Duck game at Autzen Stadium my freshman year, which meant it was the first time I walked the footbridge from campus to the stadium and the first time I experienced the wall of Autzen sound when Joey Harrington led a comeback win against the Trojans late in the fourth to seal a win, ultimately leading me down my personal and professional college football path.»

Additionally, there is a decent chance that if any of the teams from the remaining field do make the College Football Playoff, their odds to win the two games needed to capture the title would be in excess of +500, which itself is higher than either of the field odds represented above.

IMHO we'll impress elite recruits, and the college fb world, when we get >.500 and win a bowl game.

Then Papa Bear won 326 games, 12 more than Stagg, more than anyone in the history of the pros or the colleges.

The Williams thumbnail: Kicked off UConn's team in 2013 for stealing a teammate's credit card and using it... enrolled in a tiny Brooklyn college trying to get his football career back... enrolled at Utah in 2015... Quit Utah's team in September 2016, telling head coach Kyle Whittingham he couldn't deal with the mental pressure he was going through... Returned to the team at the coaches» request a month later when three backs got injured... After a month away from any physical activity, he ran for 179 yards against Oregon State, and then, in his second game, he set the Rose Bowl stadium record for a college running back, rushing for 332 yards and four touchdowns in a Utah win over UCLA.

One reason: the National Christian College Athletic Association stressed its member schools can't count games as wins (or losses) unless the opponent's school is accredited.

With a win Monday, the Tide can redeem themselves en route to a third straight appearance in college football's biggest game.

College players usually play every day in conference tournaments (with rare exceptions, like Kemba the year UConn won it all, it's not more than 2 - 3 games straight)

Because there are so many games each college basketball season, focusing on more heavily bet games (by adding Bet Labs» Number of Bets filter to the research above) increases win percentage even more.

In the college game, that's generally enough (although it led to real problems against Texas), but in the pro game, it's hard to win if you're at disadvantage in the tactical game.

A week later, the Ducks won the Pac - 12 title game and clinched a spot in the inaugural College Football Playoff.

Alabama won Monday night's College Football Playoff National Championship game against Georgia, but it wouldn't come without some controversy from the Big Ten's officiating crew.

After Barrett got hurt in the last game of OSU's regular season and watched from the sidelines while Cardale Jones won the Big Ten title game and College Football Playoff, he could've been a backup again.

After winning section titles as a freshman and junior, the four - year varsity letter winner has his sights set on a third SJS crown to add to his high school accomplishments before he transitions his game and life to college and beyond.

And now the only likely win remaining on the schedule is a home game versus Boston College.

In a game that brought together the NCAA's major college offensive leader and its college division's second best in total offense, San Jose's Danny Holman and San Diego's Don Horn, the Aztecs of San Diego won easily 25 - 0.

He sneaks a cigarette on this newly nicotine - free campus and explains that if you've been around the pro game long enough, with all its me - first money - grubbers, you'll welcome the college game, no matter how win - oriented it may have become.

Williams graduated from Grambling in 1977 and has maintained close ties to the school and to its living icon, Eddie Robinson, who has won more games, 405, than any other college coach.

The play refers to playing college football, and the off means if you don't win your game you are off the list of teams that can win the title!

Wentz is looking like the next great QB and he is from a small school and has some similar measurables, but Wentz WAS accurate and he won almost every single college game he ever started, often carrying the team on his back.

We have also written at length about how it is profitable to bet against ranked College Football teams, fade NFL teams in «must - win» situations, take NBA underdogs after a blowout loss and pound the over in bad weather NFL games.

But Berry knew it was the only way ULM was going to win this game, and unlike so many college coaches, he said «Screw it,» and rolled the dice.

In college sports, there are plenty of teams that can go on lengthy win streaks, but it's tough to cover more than a few games in a row.

Bet Labs subscribers can receive current game matches for this system or create winning college basketball systems of their own, however, for a limited time we are giving everybody access to a limited version of NCAAB Bet Labs.

The Thundering Herd (21 - 10) will try to finish their third consecutive season with a win in the final game as Elk Grove, the Division I North champion, will face South champion Tracy, in a rematch of the 2016 SJS Division I championship series on June 2 - 3 at Sacramento City College.

It's a home game in college basketball with those additional factors mentioned; they absolutelyshould have won that game.

In the past three years, in fact, Boston College had lost the Frozen Four title game twice, and the Eagles hadn't won a national championship in any sport since their hockey team's 1949 victory.

«Those will go to our trainer, Bert Lenz, after we win the title,» Boston College senior goalie Scott Clemmensen said with a smile two nights before the NCAA championship game.

Besides a 14 - point win over Boston College, their closest game was a 41 - 14 blowout of Miami.

With rough, resourceful backs to carry the ball and a light, fast line to keep the enemy honest, Oklahoma has won 16 games in a row — longest streak in major college football

After the No. 1 Tigers» win overFlorida last Saturday (page 44)-- the first game LSU had played as the nation «stop - ranked team since 1959 — SI asked Carville (who also cohosts the XM radioshow 60/20 Sports) to discuss college football and his favorite team.